Do electricians make more in Huntsville or Mobile?

Mobile pays more: the median is $58,500 in Huntsville and $61,720 in Mobile, a 5% difference.

Electrician salary in Huntsville, AL

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Electricians in the Huntsville, AL area earn a median of $58,500 a year, or $28.13 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $77,050. Across all of Alabama, the median is $55,690, so Huntsville pays 5% more than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$58,500

Bottom 10% under$38,280Top 10% over$77,050

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $18.40/hr
Jobs in this area: 1,030
After cost of living: $62,850
Median hourly pay: $28.13/hr
vs U.S. median: −7%
vs Alabama median: +5%
Mean (average) pay: $59,090 a year · $28.41 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 26620, Huntsville, AL). Excludes self-employed electricians. Cost of living: BEA Regional Price Parities, 2024. *Starting pay is estimated from the 10th percentile; BLS does not report pay by license level.

Pay by percentile

What electricians in Huntsville, AL earn at each point of the pay range, May 2025: 10% earn less than the 10th percentile, half earn less than the median, and 10% earn more than the 90th.

Percentile	Hourly	Yearly
10th percentile	$18.40	$38,280
25th percentile	$22.75	$47,310
Median (50th)	$28.13	$58,500
75th percentile	$32.00	$66,560
90th percentile	$37.04	$77,050

BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS yearly figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours.

How Huntsville, AL compares

Huntsville ranks 5th of 13 Alabama metro areas for electrician pay.
Electricians are less concentrated in the Huntsville area than nationally: 3.8 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.79 times the U.S. share.

Other Alabama metro areas

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Questions

Do electricians make more in Huntsville or Mobile?: Mobile pays more: the median is $58,500 in Huntsville and $61,720 in Mobile, a 5% difference.

About this data

Wages are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey for May 2025, occupation 47-2111 (Electricians), area code 26620 (Huntsville, AL). BLS counts wage and salary workers only, so self-employed electricians and business owners aren't included. The cost-of-living figure divides the median by the Bureau of Economic Analysis Regional Price Parity for 2024 (93.1, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures